Discharge Of Sugar Shipment Held Up At Lyttelton
(P.A.) ' CHRISTCHURCH, Mar. 4. The Llyttelton waterside workers returned to their homes at 11 o’clock this morning after a stop-work meeting which lasted an hour, leaving more than 200 tons of sugar badly needed by Christchurch housewives and manufacturers in the holds of the Waimarino. The shin berthed at 10 a.m. yesterday but because labour was not available during the day a start was not made on unloading until 6 p.m. One railway truck was loaded before work finished on the wharves last night and another was filled this morning before the watersiders left to attend the stop-work meeting. No reason for the meeting was given by union officials but one said that a resolution had been passed demanding better facilities on trains used by watersiders on the Lyttelton-Christ-church line.
The wharves will remain idle until 8 o’clock on Monday morning. Three overseas and four coastal ships are affected by the hold-up. Normally the watersiders work on Saturday mornings at overtime rates.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22887, 5 March 1949, Page 8
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